The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.
The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.
The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
We live in media, as fish live in water.
Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.